18And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
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And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-28)Here are more exceedingly great and precious promises made of the happy state of the Jews after their return to their own land; but they have a further reference to the kingdom of the Messiah and the glories of gospel-times. I. It is here promised that Ephraim and Judah shall be happily united in brotherly love and mutual serviceableness; so that whereas, ever since the desertion of the ten tribes…
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